Re: [TANGO-L] Married Couples in the milongas: redux

[Dr Zarlengo <zarlengo@MAC.COM>]

I know many women who do not wear their wedding ring even hear in the  
US.  I am not sure their motivations. I know one who loves jewelry  
and has a couple of wedding rings, one with a large diamong.  She  
says that because of her work putting on elastic gloves and off  
often, that she does not wear her rings.

When I meat any woman, I have a habit of look at their left hand to  
see if they "are married."

Others when you first talk to them, they make a clear statement about  
their husband to let you.  Others will ask me, "Oh is your wife here  
tonight?" Not to subtle!

I attend to dance. I run into good dancers and mediocre dancers.  
Obivously, it is more fun with a good dancer. The Tango/milonga flows  
like a spring breeze.

Don



El Feb 5, 2006, a las 8:51 AM, Ira Goldstein escribió:

 Does this mean that my wife & I should remove our rings & arrive  
separately at a milonga if we would like to dance with other people,  
out of respect for porteño "culture"? If I go to a milonga without my  
wife, will Argentine women dance with me if I have a wedding ring on,  
assuming that they somehow have adjudicated me to be dance-worthy at  
all?

Thanks,

--Ira




At 1:03 PM +0900 2/5/06, astrid wrote:

>  > In the Bay Area there are countless married couples who everyone  
> knows are
>
> >  married and they dance with other people.  They come together,  
> > they walk
> in
>
> >  together, and then most separate to find their favorite partners.  
> > There
> are
>
> >  others who come together and only dance with each other. Some dance
> together a
>
> >  bit, and then go off to find other partners.  THIS WILL NEVER  
> > HAPPEN IN
> BUENOS
>
> >  AIRES, trust me.  The married couples stay together.
> >  Next point, in San Francisco, the married woman or man may greet  
> > their
> >  friends. It doesn't matter who their friends are. They say hello.
>
> The men in BsAs also have a saying:"There is nothing more boring  
> than going
> to a milonga with your own wife."
>
> The reason, nobody greets them when they come in with a partner is A)
> because the partner may be someone other than their wife, and you are
> supposed to politely ignore this or B) it is really their wife who  
> is not
> supposed to know that they have been there all week without her.
>
> Astrid




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